This is for Puppy Precise 5.4.3
First you’ve gone through the wizard but your Date/Time are wrong
Click Menu/Desktop/Psync Time Server Synchronisation
Make sure your time zone is correct if not
Click Menu/Desktop/Chooselocale Country Setup

Now Click on the Button that relates closiest to your Area of the world
You now have an option to Autostart this everytime your computer starts up

1- When running Puppy on a PC where Windows is installed, as Windows directly set the hardware clock to the "right" Time, Puppy should have finally nothing else to do that support and display this Time without touching anything... How could this simply be done?
Since daylight Time change, I absolutely never succeeded in getting the right Time: Puppy always puts its oar by adding or subtracting something to or from the hardware clock Time. (Though I obviously could, while using Psync: but when there is no active network, this is not convenient!)

2- The script by tasmod "set_hwclock_type" gently says, while choosing between "software to match hardware" and "hardware to match software": "if you don't know or uncertain, that's ok, just click the 'No' button!"
Please, may somebody give "more" details about this configuration script, even for the first choice "What should the hardware clock be interpreted as?": "localtime" or "utc"? This is so laconic that many non English speaking users have some difficulties to well understand how this is exactly working?

I saw it was partly internationalized but didn't know if these terms could be translated or not: as they were not, I though it was for a good reason and didn't take the liberty to change something.

"software to match hardware" and "hardware to match software", "What should the hardware clock be interpreted as?", "localtime" or "utc"?: Even translated in French, this needs nevertheless to be explained for the poor silly guy I am... What does this mean, what does the script make? What is it used for? This is confusing and I would like first to understand and then, write some help words to add to the script for user (who wouldn't know or would be uncertain!) to really make his choice with full knowledge of the actions.

Hello,
Puppy alone on my laptop (Windows not installed)
Hardware clock is set on UTC Time.
Please look at the pictures below (better than long speeches)...
Why my tray clock does not display right Time (+ 1 hour!)?
I get the right Time if I make my hardware clock lie: UTC -1.
But this cannot be done on machine with windows installed on. So I am always getting 1 hour more!

Is this a bug?
Am I alone to encounter this issue?
Or what's wrong in my configuration?

This is exactly what I did: Set the right UTC Time manually through the bios. And it is also here I have to "lie" and set it to UTC -1 hour, otherwise Puppy tray clock displays for example, 12 instead of 11.

As said above, I obviously know it is possible to get the right Time using Psync (and I am actually using it!) but it is a last resort: User not connected to the Internet gets wrong Time and have to correct this manually.
This should not be. This should simply work. And this doesn't!

I am running Puppy precise 5.4.3. Perhaps this doesn't occur with latest Precise version or other Puppy versions (Racy, Vary )?. This didn't with Puppy 4.31.

Hello,
I finally found the solution!
It was the Puppy Precise 5.4.3 /etc/rc.d/rc.country file that was the cause of the issue (I found an error message in /tmp/bootkernel.log which alerted me....)! So, I replaced it with the Puppy Precise 5.5 /etc/rc.d/[rc.country file and all is working OK now!
@L18L
Thank you for your willingness!

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